Crime maps have just come to the UK -- but their use was pioneered in San Francisco, as Hans Rosling discovered. (Plotting San Francisco's crimes onto a topographical map revealed a surprising factor in crime rates: where you are on a hill.)(Part 1 of 6)

Documentary which takes viewers on a rollercoaster ride through the wonderful world of statistics to explore the remarkable power they have to change our understanding of the world, presented by superstar boffin Professor Hans Rosling, whose eye-opening,

More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xxgbn MIT Cosmologist Max Tegmark introduces his theory that reality is a mathematical structure, unchanging and eternal - an idea that pushes physics into the realm of philosophy.

More about this episode:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p1fpc#synopsis. Alan Davies attempts to answer the proverbial question: how long is a piece of string? But what appears to be a simple task soon turns into a mind-bending voyage of discovery where

http://www.bbc.co.uk/code In episode one of The Code, Marcus du Sautoy travels to Alabama to meet Dr John Cooley who explains how periodical cicadas rely on safety in numbers and rare appearances to avoid predators.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/code In episode two of The Code Marcus du Sautoy takes a look at the Platonic Solids - five perfectly symmetrical solids, central to Greek geometry, that may look familiar to us today - the tetrahedron, the cube, the octahedron, the d

More on this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wltbm In a rare interview Matt Collings talks to Professor Stephen Hawking about S=A/4, the simple equations for the complex behaviour of entropy in black holes. On his journey through Beautiful E

http://www.bbc.co.uk/moreorless Strictly Come Dancing bosses say the 2008 semi-final was the victim of "exceptional circumstances". BBC Radio 4's More or Less disagrees. The TV show's producers realised it was mathematically impossible for a public teleph